Category: Impact Investing

Impact Digest Q4 2023: Calls for More Stringent, Standardized Reporting

Our Q4 2023 Impact Digest is a roundup of important impact investing news as we head toward year-end. In general, we are seeing increasing calls fo...

LNWM & WAM 2023 Shareholder Resolution Impact Report

Shareholder resolutions are an important way for investors in publicly traded companies to advocate for positive change, and we believe they offer o...

Our Investment Philosophy

We create for each of our clients a strategic business plan for investing that brings vision, structure and discipline to the preservation and growt...

Impact Investing: Lifting the Fog

Many people want to invest for impact as well as financial returns, but they're feeling ambivalent. Why? Perhaps because it’s not clear how to pro...

Laird Norton Chief Impact Officer offers tips on ways you can adjust your approach to impact investing

Our Annual Impact Report Outlines Threats & Progress

Looking back at the past year, we hear many of our peers in the industry use words like change, uncertainty and volatility. For the past several yea...

The Nuts & Bolts of Impact Investing at LNWM/WAM

What distinguishes impacting investing at LNWM/WAM for clients who want to invest for financial return as well as environmental and social benefit? ...

Q&A Impact Investing with Justina Lai

In this Q&A, Chief Impact Officer Justina Lai explains why impact investing is an integral part of our investment process. We delve into how impact ...

Carbon Taxes: Imperfect But Can Be Effective

The United Nations recently issued yet another dire reminder of the need to ramp up efforts to combat climate change, warning that we are on track t...